Comments on: AAUW: ‘Boy crisis’ is a myth

By: Judge Rufus Peckham

Judge Rufus Peckham — Wed, 28 May 2008 11:01:11 +0000

P.S.: Elizabeth, as for absentee fathers, blames our mothers, who initiate 70 percent of the divorces, often for financial gain from child custody awards.

As for the expectations on the boys — that’s a very politically correct, but immoral stance to take. When boys were out-achieving girls, everyone said, “There’s a problem with the school.” Now that boys have fallen behind, you and others say, “There’s a problem with the boy.”

If men had suggested in 1992 that too little was expected of girls, we would have been figuratively castrated by the feminists. Why the double-standard?

By: Judge Rufus Peckham

Judge Rufus Peckham — Wed, 28 May 2008 10:57:29 +0000

Girls are further ahead of boys now than boys were ahead of girls in 1992 when there supposedly was a “girl crisis.” Yet, there’s no “boy crisis,” right? In 1970, there were 1.5 million more men than women in higher education and women complained that this was a crisis. Now there are 2.7 million MORE women than men in higher education, and the feminists assert that this is not a crisis.

Instead, they divert our attention with an issue EVERYBODY knows is a problem and always has been a problem in education: race.

In short, the feminist education agenda does NOT care about our sons — how sad that they would throw an entire gender under the bus for the sake of some political agenda. I suppose if they admitted there was a “boy crisis,” they really would be out of business.

Well, there IS a boy crisis, and they can, of course, go to hell.

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Thu, 22 May 2008 19:01:06 +0000

I have seen way fewer expectations placed on boys in my DD’s schools, both public & private by parents. When I was growing up (way back in the dark ages) parents placed high expectations on their sons. Its seems as it is a combination of poor parenting and way too many ABSENTEE FATHERS! As to women running public ed, even in my parents time (pre-WWII), most of the elementary teachers were women.

By: Ed is Watching » Public Education Really Needs to Focus More on Helping Boys, Too

Thu, 22 May 2008 18:15:21 +0000

[...] the AAUW report ignores the problem that boys are under-performing in our schools. Joanne Jacobs says the report is missing a big part of the point, too, and concludes: “Focusing more on the learning needs [...]

By: Richard Aubrey

Richard Aubrey — Thu, 22 May 2008 17:14:52 +0000

In any other matchup, the differential in outcomes would be considered outrageous and perfect proof of the evils of the white patriarchy.

By: BadaBing

BadaBing — Thu, 22 May 2008 03:00:39 +0000

There is a boy crisis regardless of what a bunch of feminazis think. Women run the district where I teach, and women choose the books kids read in my department. Women run education, and education in this country is geared for girls.

By: Michael Umphrey

Michael Umphrey — Wed, 21 May 2008 18:32:00 +0000

If you want to understand why the boys are behaving as they are, look closely at what the girls are doing and the messages they are sending. You can’t solve the “boy crisis” without also figuring out the girls.

It’s a human problem and a community problem.

By: Walter E. Wallis

Walter E. Wallis — Wed, 21 May 2008 15:32:28 +0000

Time for Black and Hispanic boys to learn that “Macho” and gang membership is the antithesis of manly.

By: ts

ts — Wed, 21 May 2008 12:46:37 +0000

It is interesting to see that the GPA increases (11.6% for girls and 10.4% for boys) translate to a 27.7% growth in the gap over a 15 year period. Given the lower graduation rates for boys, it would seem a logical assumption that at least some of the lowest achieving boys are not included because they leave school, so their GPA may represent some degree of selection that the girls sample does not, increasing the boys value in the study beyond what is actually seen in schools. That would seem to be a topic that deserves some additional investigation. Even more, the other measures (NAEP, SAT, ACT) do not support the increase in GPA. I know that’s a different question for a different study. What’s interesting is that the disparate/proportional outcomes that are made so often in gender discussions when women feel they are being discriminated against are absent from this study, where those comparisons would not favor women.

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Wed, 21 May 2008 10:29:14 +0000

Come on — we need a real study on this. Facts are more black males end up in MIP Conduct that do not belong there, more black males get disciplined, etc…

Heck at my son’s academic honors program the vast majority, heck it was a super majority of academic winners were girls. This is at a private school.

When does the pendulum swing back to focus more on the boys?